7:08 PM,
Mar. 18, 2014

Christine Oswald

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A couple face more than 30 charges relating to the alleged abuse and neglect of their nine children over a five-year period.

Christine Oswald is accused of breaking a broom over a child who was cleaning for a social worker visit, according to a criminal complaint filed in September.

A year earlier, when one of the children apparently lost the cover to a DVD, Christine Oswald slapped him and shoved him up against a bookshelf and stabbed him in the armpit with a pen she had been using to fill out adoption paperwork, complaint says. The Oswalds had both adopted and biological children and the ...